Sandy Township High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Du Bois, PA)

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MR. KARL MARSH BREWER We welcome Mr. Karl Marsh Brewer as our new superintendent and wish him much fame and fortune in his position as superintendent of the new DuBois Area Schools. Mr. Brewer is of local talent having graduated from Rcynoldsville H. S. originally, but furthered his education at Clarion State Teachers College, Duke University and Penn State University where he obtained his teachers degree, A. B. degree and Masters Degree. Mr. Brewer's teaching experience has been varied, having taught in Winslow Township, Rcynoldsville, Sykesville, Corsica, and Sandy, the latter becoming the background for his first administrative experience. He served here first as principal later becoming superintendent before entering the DuBois system. All in all, Mr. Brewer has had not only a wide educational background for his present position, but a practical one also. So again we wish you success, Mr Brew'er. MR. W. D. WEAVER Mr. Weaver, like Mr. Brewer, is very well known in the educational circles of the county, and again has a varied background of experience. The two have worked together for quite a number of years so that we are certain that now they will work together to govern the DuBois Area Schools with nothing but the best results. Mr. Weaver after graduating from Mahaffey H. S. attended Grove City College, obtaining his A. B. degree, later receiving his Masters Degree from Pennsylvania State University. His steps in the ladder of success began when he taught high school for a short time in Summerville before accepting his first administrative position in Burnside, then Mahaffey as Assistant Principal. After serving as Assistant he became Supervising Principal until 1942 when he became Superintendent of Sandy Township School District. We all wish Mr. Weaver years of success and good luck in the ensuing years as Assistant Superintendent of the DuBois Area Schools. MR. J. T. HARRIGER Mr. Harriger has been our High School Principal since we entered high school and we are happy to have had his helping hand in preparing us for our future careers. A graduate of Falls Creek School and St. Bonaventure College, Mr. Harriger taught in the Falls Creek School system before earning his Masters Degree at Pennsylvania State University. It was after he won this degree that he became S. H S. principal. Since then his wise counseling and sincere interest in the school, the student body and its activities has made him very popular not only with the teachers but also with the students of all classes, Thank you, Mr. Harriger, for your sincere interest in us and your mighty fine advice to us. Good luck, and happy days! MRS. MILDRED HAFNER A true and interested friend! Mrs. Hafner, who has served Mr. Weaver as his secretary' for fourteen years, is just exactly that. Mrs. Hafner came here from New York where she had been working for the J. G. White Engineering Corporation. Mildred has helped us all in one way or another. Upon entering in the morning we are almost certain to see Mrs Hafner in the hall, and to be sure of a very pleasant smile and a cheery “Good morning.” She was graduated from Windber High School before attending the Lebanon Business College. She went directly from college to New York before embarking on a career in Sandy Township We are glad and proud to say that she has been in the school system as long as she has. We will certainly miss our “Mildred,” and envy those to follow who will cross her path. 6

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“To the school on the hilltop.” This phrase begins our beloved Alma Mater, and it is with this, Sandy High, that we make our dedication to you and our teachers. Your halls echo the sounds of basketball games won and lost, music groups fervently singing, students hurrying to class and many other sounds that will become memories—memories that will always hold a special and very dear place in our hearts. Our time of departure is near. Soon we must leave Sandy High, but she will not leave us. She will stay in our memory forever. We walk slowly down the auditorium aisle, almost as we did on Move-Up Day, and our minds are in a reminiscent mood. We travel backstage, the old stage with its time-worn steps and its name-covered walls. These walls tell of Jamborees, pep rallies, assemblies, and special events. These walls hold so many memories— memories that are relived every time its stage holds another presentation. In the vestibule Student Council members sell candy at noon and there is the bustling and laughing of the students in a congenial nature, pausing to purchase pop or milk for their lunches. Up the honored steps we tread, honored because each student that trod the golden stairway held his school in high esteem! The lower hallway—The Varsity cheerleaders gathered here at noon to practice. On game nights they led the crowd in cheering the boys to victory. They know that win or lose, a victory is theirs—Another victorv in good sportsmanship and fair play. These make a school. These qualities have molded Sandy High, making our hearts swell with pride, when we realize we were a part of her. As we go along, on our right, the superintendent’s office, on our left, the principal’s office. Thev guided our school and they guided its occupants. Great admiration is held for these two men—our friends. Rooms 2, 3 and 4—Senior homeroom, Home-Ec room and the Library. Each holds memories—memories that are ours to keep and treasure. One more flight of steps to go. Our heart is heavy. We have gone up and down them so many times, but never before did we stop to think—one day will lx? our last. We look around and see the Freshman homeroom and it brings memories of Orientation Day. We were dubbed “greenies” and as good sports we went through our initiation duties. Before we knew it, we became Sophomores, Juniors and finally Seniors. In just a little while we will be the Alumni. In retrospect, we think of Jay-Vee cheerleaders. They used these halls for practice, and as they cheered during the games, they kept the thought, as did those cheering with them that “it isn’t as important to win, but how vou play the game.” We slowly start to leave this floor to begin our descent in this last journey. As we turn to go, it is so silent that our very thoughts, soundless as they are, seem to echo and re-echo and we are further saddened. At the end of our last journey through Sandy High, we pause in the Auditorium. Wc look down the aisle. Empty. The thoughts and memories we treasure can never be fullv expressed, but as we go, we know Sandy High has given its a good education and all these most treasured thoughts. These thoughts will make Sandy High enduring— enduring in memory. She will always stand as a monument, and this monument can never be replaced or destroyed. It is with this that we make our final departure. As each of us travel down the road of life, we nray that road will be guided by God and the fine example set for us, by thee—Sandy High. Rewritten in part from the 1957 Flambeau with permission of Nancy Cooper, author. 8